The call always starts out the same. “I've had Joe Blow Sewer Cleaning out here three times and they keep telling me...
Pipe Articles
Editorial
It’s Time For Tough Talk About Gravity Distribution
With most conventional onsite systems, flow from the septic tank is via gravity with the goal of even distribution across the soil...
Editorial
Food Plant Expansion Prompts Addition of Orenco AdvanTex System
A food processing plant in eastern Oregon was growing and needed a new wastewater system. Brian Rabe had designed the previous system...
Editorial
Installer James Stiksma Employs a Telehandler Unit to Apply Materials Without Trampling a Large Sand Bed
The old onsite system was failing at a rural property outside Abbotsford, British Columbia, and construction of a crude oil pipeline coming...
Editorial
Root Intrusion or Root Canal? They’re Both Painful for Installers.
In our workshops, one of the installation keys we discuss at great length is making sure sewage tanks, piping between system components...
Editorial
School Customers About Onsite System Freezing Issues
Our first principle for a good sewage treatment system has always been to keep the system as shallow as possible. The reasons?...
Editorial
Septic Makeover at a Presidential Mountain Retreat
Nestled on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains along the Frazier River are a series of small cabins President Dwight Eisenhower...
Editorial
Onsite Designer Is Left High and Dry With Grand Canyon Cabins Project
About 50 miles south of the Grand Canyon, just north of Williams, Arizona, is a sprouting collection of cabins to serve this...
Editorial
Avoid Digging Deep When Designing Drainfields
A few months ago an installer we have worked with sent soil pictures to interpret with the comments that when he dug...
Editorial
Don’t Turn Bedrock Into a Money Pit
We’ve heard from readers recently who live in areas with shallow solids over bedrock. As you can imagine, they report that these...
Editorial
Steep Maine Hillside Requires Carving a Flat Drainfield Bed
The house about a half-mile from the Atlantic Ocean had a system dating to sometime in the 1950s. There was a stone...
Editorial
Bringing Summer Camp Systems Back to Clean and Efficient Service
Every year, the Indiana Onsite Wastewater Professionals Association completes a charity project. They pick a person or organization that would have a...
Editorial
Product Focus - January 2022
Drainfield Components
Advanced Drainage Systems Septic StackThe Septic Stack system from Advanced Drainage Systems is available in configurations of 9, 11 and 13 pipes. The units are designed...
Editorial
Now It’s Prime Real Estate
A businessman sought to purchase a prime 0.39-acre lot on sprawling Lake Lanier in the northern region of Georgia, but the state...


















